Page 32 of the chapter briefly glosses over the concept that an organism's representational system for vision is closely tied to that organism's usage of it. Humans are probably the best species in object-recognition. All those physiological adaptations that separate us from the rest, in terms of visual machinery, are costly. What were the most likely selective pressures for this? Or does our top-tier object-recognition arsenal depend less on perception and more on higher-level processing? Nonetheless, those too need a raison d'être. Curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Thanks,
Giovanni